[Ding! Detected that the host has fallen into an unprecedented desperate situation, and the desire to survive has exploded! God-level choices have been triggered!]
[Current environment: Encountered a mid-tier Martial Master Realm (suspected higher) mutant beast "Black-Scaled Mad Ape", life is severely threatened, less than three seconds from death!]
[Option One: Burn half of the host's current Qi and blood, forcibly break free from the momentum lock, and execute the "Inch Horizon" extreme escape. Reward: One-time substitute-death item [Life-Saving Golden Cicada Pill] (can substitute for death once under a fatal attack, randomly teleport to escape). Cost: Foundation damaged, cultivation drops to the first stage of the Warrior Realm, a large amount of resources is required to make up for it.]
[Option Two: Take life and death lightly, fight if you disagree! Choose to face the Black-Scaled Mad Ape directly, and fight for that glimmer of survival in a desperate situation! Reward: According to the host's battle performance this time (survival time, damage dealt, combat will, etc.), gain partial control over the Mysterious Black Lotus (suspected spatial-attribute supreme treasure), and have an extremely high probability of obtaining information on the subsequent remnant chapters of the "Annihilation Divine Fist"!]
[Please make a choice within three seconds! Countdown: 3...]
The cold mechanical voice echoed in his mind, like the grim reaper's urging talisman.
Xiao Han's brain instead became exceptionally clear at this moment.
Option one meant staying alive. The Golden Cicada Pill, substitute-death teleportation, sounded incomparably tempting.
But the cost was equally huge: burning half of his Qi and blood, his cultivation plummeting by three stages, and his foundation being damaged! This meant that almost all his previous efforts would go down the drain, and wanting to recover would take who knew how much time and resources.
More importantly, his state of mind! Fleeing from battle and surviving by relying on items would become an eternal shadow on his martial arts path! He, Xiao Han, was a transmigrator and a genius who had awakened dual SSS+ martial souls; how could he cower before fighting and be reduced to a stray dog?!
Option two was nine deaths and a life! Or even ten deaths and no life! The fourth stage of the Warrior Realm fighting a mid-tier Martial Master Realm? This was no longer leapfrog challenge; this was an egg hitting a rock, an ant shaking a giant tree!
But the reward... Partial control of the Mysterious Black Lotus! The subsequent remnant chapters of the "Annihilation Divine Fist"! Any of these two things was enough to make countless powerhouses go crazy!
The spatial fluctuations emitted by that black lotus echoed faintly with his Eternal Night Monarch; it was definitely a heaven-defying supreme treasure! And as for the power of the "Annihilation Divine Fist", he had already experienced a preliminary taste of it just now; if he could obtain the subsequent remnant chapters...
Fleeing and surviving meant losing the future.
Risking his life and fighting to the death meant having a one-in-ten-thousand chance to seize that heaven-defying opportunity!
"2..." The system's countdown continued.
The Black-Scaled Mad Ape also seemed to sense the slight abnormality of this "ant" before it; a trace of impatience flashed in its scarlet eyes, a deep roar emitted from its throat, and the terrifying coercion intensified once more. Xiao Han felt his consciousness begin to blur.
"Damn it... Fight!"
In a flash of lightning, Xiao Han made his decision.
In his past life he had accomplished nothing, and in this life he had managed to obtain a heaven-defying start with great difficulty; how could he still run away like a coward?
The path of martial arts was naturally to defy the heavens, to contend with the heavens, fight the earth, and battle humans! If he didn't even dare to take such a risk, how could he speak of ascending to the pinnacle?!
Wealth and honor are sought in danger!
"System! Daddy chooses two!!" Xiao Han used almost the power of his soul to roar with heaven-shaking force in his heart, "Fuck her mother's! Risking my life!!"
[Ding! Host choice confirmed!]
[Option Two: Take life and death lightly, fight if you disagree! Selected!]
[The reward will be settled according to performance after the battle ends!]
Following the confirmation of the choice, an indescribable indomitable fighting spirit, seemingly originating from the depths of the soul, erupted with a boom! This fighting spirit was like a prairie fire, instantly igniting his almost-crushed will!
It was a kind of arrogance that "my fate is decided by me, not by the heavens"!
It was a kind of determination that "even in death I will splash you with a body of blood"!
Boom!
It was as if some invisible shackles were forcibly broken open by a fraction by this soaring fighting spirit! The terrifying coercion that had originally imprisoned him like a solid substance actually showed a moment of loosening.
Although it was still as heavy as a mountain, he re-felt the existence of his own body and could mobilize the spiritual power within him!
"Roar?!"
On the opposite side, in the pair of scarlet giant eyes of the Black-Scaled Mad Ape, for the first time, a trace of obvious... surprise flashed?
It could clearly feel that the tiny creature before it, small as dust, under its coercion sufficient to crush mountains, not only did not collapse, but instead erupted with a tenacious will that made even it feel a trace of astonishment!
This ant actually dared to resist?!
Following the surprise was towering fury!
The Black-Scaled Mad Ape felt that its majesty had been provoked! An ant dared to bare its teeth before a dragon?
"Roar—!!!"
A roar more violent, more fierce, as if it would tear the entire valley apart, exploded with a boom! The sound wave turned into ripples visible to the naked eye, completely scattering the surrounding mist, the ground trembled violently, and countless gravels were shaken into mid-air.
The mountain-like body of the Black-Scaled Mad Ape suddenly stood upright, its thick arms beating its chest covered in pitch-black scales, emitting dull sounds like beating drums!
"Thud! Thud! Thud!"
Every single sound seemed to strike Xiao Han's heart, bringing an incomparable sense of oppression!
Its scarlet giant eyes locked onto Xiao Han dead, filled with a tyranny that destroyed everything!
The terrifying aura was several times stronger than before!
The tiny breathing space that Xiao Han had just fought for was instantly submerged by even more violent pressure.
Yet he did not retreat, his gaze instead becoming sharper!
The fighting spirit was already ignited, and there was no way back!
Then... Fight!!!
That terrifying coercion, like a landslide and tsunami, pinned Xiao Han firmly in place, his bones emitting groans unable to bear the weight.
However, the moment he made the life-risking choice, an indomitable will charged out fiercely from the depths of his soul, actually shaking the iron-solid momentum blockade.
"Roar?!"
In the scarlet giant eyes of the Black-Scaled Mad Ape, a trace of anthropomorphic astonishment flashed for the first time. This ant was actually not frightened out of its wits? And it even dared to resist its majesty?
After the astonishment came a fury like a volcano erupting!
"Open... for Daddy!" Xiao Han's eyes were blood-red, the "Creation-Heaven-Penetrating Art" within him running wildly, squeezing out every fraction of spiritual power.
Hum—!
Two completely different yet equally noble and vast auras suddenly bloomed behind him!
A verdant Chaos Green Lotus phantom, swirling with misty, pure-white life radiance, rose slowly, petal after petal unfurling as if bearing a newly born universe, vast and boundless!
Simultaneously, the shadow at his feet wriggled like a living creature, boiling, and condensing into a blurry, deep kingly phantom that seemed capable of devouring all things—the Eternal Night Monarch!
Dual SSS+ martial souls, simultaneously manifested!
Although before the terrifying aura of the Martial Master Realm Black-Scaled Mad Ape, the aura of the dual souls was like two flat-bottomed boats in towering waves.
It appeared somewhat insignificant, but the high rank it contained and the profound nature of its essence carried an innate nobility and majesty, actually causing the furious Black-Scaled Mad Ape's movements to pause for a moment!